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#1

This is So Sad...

Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:21pm

This is pathetic, but I'm sobbing right now, people! Grey Gardens, 11O in the Shade, Gypsy, and Beauty and the Beast all gone, and all of which I wanted to see!!! Did anybody go to the last performance of Grey Gardens? Was it heartwrenching? Is Chris Ebersole gonna do the tour? My God, this is one of the saddest days Broadway has ever seen. But, on the somewhat bright side, happy twenty-first birthday Lea Michele.

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#2

re: This is So Sad...

Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:22pm

That IS pathetic.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#3

re: This is So Sad...

Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:23pm

Sure is.

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

#4

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Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:23pm

There's at least 1 thread for every show that closed today & another one for everything today.

Sorry you didn't get to see these shows, at least BATB is recorded

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#5

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Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:27pm

Today's Lea Michele's birthday? I was at the SPRING AWAKENING Actors Fund Performance tonight. I wish I would have known. I was going to post this in the SA Love Thread, but tonight when Jonathan Groff unbuttoned Lea's top for the first time, both of the buttons flew off into the audience!

Happy Birthday to her.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#6

re: This is So Sad...

Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:27pm

"But, on the somewhat bright side, happy twenty-first birthday Lea Michele."

ahahahahhahahha

"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster. "Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."

#7

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Posted: 7/29/07 at 11:53pm

*cries*

#8

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:17am

Gah, forgive me for posting this for the umpteenth (sp?) time, but why is Beauty closing? It's pulling in millions, full audiences, it's not it's time. Or wasn't... now it's gone..

But why?

#9

re: This is So Sad...

Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:19am

GG was a super show. Ebersol is a goddess.

#10

re: This is So Sad...

Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:31am

Lickethelightbulb, I agree with you. But, once again, the almighty dollar comes into play here. Sure, Beauty and the Beast was doing great. But Disney seems to think The Little Mermaid will do better, which I don't think it will. But, Disney does what Disney wants...

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#11

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:33am

Kids, BEAUTY wasn't doing so hot before it announced a closing date.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#12

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:33am

Sorry you didn't get to see these shows. Where do you live? Wisconsin?

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#13

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:38am

How come it seems as if there are a couple of shows that close on one day?

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#14

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:41am

Also...something interesting...

I saw Maureen Moore walking in Bryant Park today and she seemed a little upset...saying something about how someone could've "stayed till October." I'm assuming she was talking about Ebersole. But, I don't want to start rumors...this is completely out of context.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#15

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:47am

I don't live in Wisconsin, Dollypop! I live close enough to the city that I could see a show every day if I wanted to. I seriuosly, seriously considered begging my mom to take me to Grey Gardens' last show, but, of course, I had to be cooling my heels in Lancaster, PA that day!

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#16

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 4:21am

Glindathegood...

thats not why beauty is closing...

the show is closing because they didn't have a theater to put Mermaid it at the time they needed to decide on one. They wanted to close Tarzan because it wasnt doing so hot, but the Richard Rodgers theater was too small for the production. At the same time, they thought of moving Beauty into the Richard Rodgers and Mermaid into the Lunt Fontainne, but the same problem came up. the richard rodgers was too small for both shows. So something had to give. Beauty had to close to make room for Mermaid, simply because no other theater was available that could accomodate such a large show. they really DID want to keep beauty open, it just wasnt feasible with mermaid needing a theater.

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#17

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:00pm

DramaQueen, there are 1475 seats in the Lunt and 1368 seats in the Rodgers. I don't think Disney would have made such a drastic decision because of a loss of 107 seats. They closed BEAUTY because it wasn't doing well at the box office.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#18

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:04pm

Shows open, shows close. The end.

Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

#19

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 12:20pm

iliketheater, Beauty and the Beast is recorded?

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

#20

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 1:51pm

"iliketheater, Beauty and the Beast is recorded?"

Yeah it was a cartoon released by Disney and was the first animated motion picture to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#21

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 1:53pm

Nominated. The only animated feature to ever be nominated. Didn't win.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#22

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Posted: 7/30/07 at 2:28pm

Foster, the size problem with the Rodgers is not the seating, but that the theatre is very small backstage. Since Mermaid is supposed to have a huge set, the show wouldn't fit into the Rodgers.

Plus, before the closing was announced, Beauty wasn't doing so great.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

#23

re: This is So Sad...

Posted: 7/30/07 at 2:43pm

I said that twice in this thread already.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

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